 per month to keep their 'blue tick' status symbol on Twitter. The new owner has ordered the social media platform's engineers to prepare a rework of the company's subscription product, Twitter Blue, within a week or face the sack. Mr Musk has also asked for changes to how Twitter handles verifying its users. The Tesla chief executive said on Sunday: 'The whole verification process is being revamped right now." Twitter could begin charging users up to $20 per month, four times the present $4.99 cost of its optional subscription service, technology news site The Verge reported. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. The major change in how Twitter operates comes just three days after Mr Musk acquired Twitter in a $44bn deal, sacked its senior executives and installed himself as 'chief Twit'. Twitter users who have a blue check market next to their name have gone through a verification process. The originally free mark is used by celebrities, influencers, journalists and brands to show they are the genuine account holder. But Twitter is now planning to charge extra for the blue tick mark. Under the current plan, Twitter users will have 90 days to sign up for the new subscription service or lose their verification. Mr Musk was said to have told engineers the subscription service needed to be ready by November 7, or they could be fired. In a post on Twitter Jason Calacanis, a venture capital investor and a friend of Mr Musk, posted a poll asking users how much they were prepared to pay for Twitter. Mr Calacanis is one of several allies advising Mr Musk, who have installed themselves in Twitter's headquarters and have been dictating immediate changes to how the company operates. Mr Musk had previously said he wanted 50pc of Twitter's revenues to come from products other than advertising, which currently makes up the bulk of the social network's income. Separately, Mr Musk launched a pol){kind=link}
‘The whole verification process is being revamped’, says new owner
Elon Musk is considering charging celebrities and influencers $20 (£17.30) per month to keep their ‘blue tick’ status symbol on Twitter.
The new owner has ordered the social media platform’s engineers to prepare a rework of the company’s subscription product, Twitter Blue, within a week or face the sack.
Mr Musk has also asked for changes to how Twitter handles verifying its users.
The Tesla chief executive said on Sunday: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now.”